Manifesto!

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs Works referred to in this episode: Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue” https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/12398/Is%20Patriotism%20a%20Virtue-1984.pdf Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan http://www.marcresource.org/ibn-tufayls-hayy-ibn-yaqzan/ Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism” http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/utilitarianism-and-against?format=PB&isbn=9780521098229 Ralph Ellison “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/9780812968262/ Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72422/a-writer-at-war-by-vasily-grossman-edited-and-translated-by-antony-beevor-and-luba-vinogradova/9780307275332/ John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism Ta-Nehesi Coates, I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic http://www.pardlo.net/books Aris Roussinos https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/aris-roussinos Valeria Luiselli, Difficult Forgiveness https://www.guernicamag.com/difficult-forgiveness/ Jonathan Ebel, GI Messiahs https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300176704/gi-messiahs Jesus Christ and the American Soldier 2nd version Bumper Sticker https://www.zazzle.com/jesus_christ_and_the_american_soldier_2nd_version_bumper_sticker-128506846244291909 Peter Lucier, Not Your Messiah https://therevealer.org/not-your-messiah/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Audio clips: Independence Day (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t1IK_9apWs Charles Olson, Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmW0SF5gYEk

Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky. Works referenced in Episode 6 Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html Yevgeny Zamyatin, We https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/we/ Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism https://www.amazon.com/Appeal-Fascism-Study-Intellectuals-1919-45/dp/0218514263/ Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/ Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We? https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677 Paul Scharre, Army of None http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/ Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war Mitch Hedburg, Tennis https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928 Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/origins-cultural-history-2-geisteswissenschaft-and-natural-sciences-vico-versus-descartes Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913 https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913 https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/9780142437964/ Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. To set the stage they discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art" originally delivered as a speech to the 1926 Conference of the NAACP in Chicago. The main event is a consideration of James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For the finale, the gents talk about James Thurber's 1931 short story, "The Greatest Man in the World." Other works referenced in this episode: Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Black+is+Beautiful%3A+A+Philosophy+of+Black+Aesthetics-p-9781405150620 Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ Francois Mauriac's Nobel Prize Speech https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/mauriac-speech.html Edward P. Jones, The Known World https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060557546/the-known-world

Discussing the impact of the Elliot Rodger manifesto and the incel subculture, media coverage on violent acts, obsession with materialism and misogyny, exploration of characters with dangerous ideologies, the nature of cruelty, societal challenges, violence triggers, and Elliot Rodger's disturbing views on intimacy. Also comparing dark themes in 'Taxi Driver' to the manifesto.